Apparatus for the propulsion and transmission of water



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

M. P. SGHETZEL.

APPARATUS FOR THE PROPULSION AND TRANSMISSION OF WATER. No. 482,655.Patented Sept. 13, 1892.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

M. P. SCHETZEL.

APPARATUS POR THE PROPULSION AND TRANSMISSION OP WATER.

NO. 482,655. Patented Sept, 13, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC MARX P. SCHETZEL, OF SAN FRANCISCO,CALIFORNIA.

APPARATUS FOR THE PROPULSION AND TRANSMISSION OF WATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 482,655, datedSeptember 13, 1892..

Application filed November 4,1891- Serial No. 410,852. (No model.) 7

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARX P. SCHETZEL, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California,have invented an Improvement in Apparatus for the Propulsion andTransmission of ater; and I hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the same. 7

My invention relates to an apparatus for the propulsion and transmissionof water; and it consists in certain details of construction, which willbe more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure 1 is a vertical section of the apparatus with a View of thedriving-pulleys. Fig. 2 is a front view. Fig. 3 is an end view of theweb to prevent rotation of the water. Figntis a View of modification.Fig. 5 is a longitudinal view of the same, one half in section, theother half in elevation. Fig. 6 shows a modified form for a doublemethod of propulsion. Fig.7 is an elevation of the water-wheel C. Fig. 8is a transverse vertical section of the same. Fig. 9 is an enlargedsectional detail showing the rings B and R and portions of the chamberand wheel or disk.

My invention is designed to be used for the propulsion and transmissionof a body or col umn of water by means of a revolving disk havinginclined or propeller-like overlapping blades, which blades extend overeach other, and a chamber through which the water is either drawn bysuction or pressed through by force.

My invention is used as a pump for raising, forcing, and transmittingwater, and also for the purpose of propelling vessels.

A is a chamber, which in Fig. 1 is shown conioalin shape, having thebase or larger end secured to a ring B. This ring has a counterboredgroove or channel in its inner face, and the wheel or disk C is fittedto revolve accurately in this counterbore. In order to admit the disk Cinto this counterbored channel, the ring R is removed from the ring 13.This ring R is securely fastened to ring B by screws, and to overcomefriction and atthe same time to sustain the disk and keep ofsprocket-wheels or pulleys G G motion may be communicated to the shaftand to the disk. This disk has inclined overlapping blades set into it,extending radially from the hub to the periphery, and standing at suchan angle that when the disk is rapidly rotated beneath the surface ofthe water the water will be forced or drawn by these blades into theinterior of the chamber A, or if used as a suction-pump the water willbe drawn into the chamber A first and then expelled from there by therotating blades of the disk C. Under ordinary circumstances andconditions the rotary motion of the disk might be communicated to thewater and the power of the apparatus be reduced, impeded, or entirelylost. In order to overcome and remove this objection, I make a web H ofsheets of metal secured together,preferablyformingirregularangularopenings parallel with the axis of thechamber A, so that the water which is delivered or received by thepropeller-disk C will pass through these openings with little or noobstructions on account of the thinness of the plates, and at the sametime all tendency to a rotary motion of the water will be arrested oneither side of the disk C, as the web H is put in front as well as inthe rear of the disk C, and securely fastened and stationary to avoidmovement, and the flow of the water will continue through the outlet ina regular current or stream. To still further assist in the action ofthe propeller'disk C, I have shown the shaft E extending into the bodyof the chamber A, nearly to the smaller or discharge end, and upon thatportion of this shaft which projects beyond the guide-plates H, I havefixed a worm-screw or propeller-blade J, which, acting in conjunctionwith the propeller-disk, discharges the water through the open smallerend of the cone-shapechamberA.

In Fig. 6 I have shown two of the channeled rings B, in which the rim ofthe disk 0- is fitted to rotate, these two rings facing each other andbeing connected firmly together by segmental plates K, which are securedto the peripheries of the rings, extending part way around them. Agroove, channel, or sprockets are made in the rim of the disk, aroundwhich a belt, chain, or cable Lpasses to transmit motion to it when thisdouble or multiplied arrangement'is used with chambers extending in eachdirection from the disk, all supplying water to one outlet or dischargepipe only, and all rotating in connection with each other. The operationin this case will be the same as previously described, with theexception that in place of the pulley upon the disk-shaft the power istransmitted directly to the periphery of the disk itself.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. An apparatus for the propulsion and transmission of water, consistingof the combination of a conical-shaped casing having a ring at thelarger end of the casing and having a counterbore groove or channel inits inner face, a circular disk having angu larly-disposed overlappingplates or blades fixed within it, and means for rotating the disk,substantially as herein described.

2. An apparatus for the propulsion and transmission of water, consistingof a disk having angularly-disposed overlapping plates or blades fixedwithin it, a means by which said disk may be rotated, a ring or casing Ihaving a counterbore in which the periphery of the disk is fitted torotate, antifrictional .wheels in the ring to sustain the disk, anextension chamber connected with the ring,

through which the water is delivered from the propeller-disk, and a webformed of angularly-united plates fitted into said chamber A or on bothsides of the disk 0, forming passages through which the water isdischarged, substantially as herein described.

3. An apparatus for the propulsion and transmission of water, consistingof the rim or disk with the radial angularly-disposed overlapping platesor blades, a means by which rotary motion is imparted to thepropeller-disk, a ring or casing with a counterbore in which theperiphery of the disk rotates, antifriction wheels against which thedisk is supported, an extension-chamber from said ring having aninterior web with openings formed of plates whereby the rotation of thewater in the chamber A, as well as on the other side of the disk 0, isprevented as it'is received or delivered by the propellerdisk 0, anextension of the propeller-shaft passing through said web into thechamber, and a worm-screw or propeller-blade secured to said extension,substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

MARX P. SOHETZEL.

Witnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, J. A. BAYLESS.

